The inclusion of Addiction as a Health problem in the 2008 Constitution was interpreted as an emancipatory move designed to restore rights lost in a war against drugs, which had generated an increase on prison population and the proliferation of a market of addiction treatment through private clinics. The State opened the first public addiction treatment center in 2013, first as a contingency area for the patients rescued from private clinics which the state shut down, and later as a therapeutic community for the problematic use of alcohol and other drugs.